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Essential shortcuts in Lightroom CC

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Essential shortcuts in Lightroom CC

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- [Narrator] Hello, friends, and welcome to another episode of Photo Tools Weekly. In this week's episode, we're focusing in on Lightroom CC. I've been getting more and more requests to focus on some issues for Lightroom CC, so here it goes. I want to talk about some shortcuts, and I'm just going to walk through these really quickly and then show you them in the app. This is a screen grab of the application. To import images, shift command I on the Mac, shift control I in Windows. To go to our photos, P for photos, that opens and closes that area. Then we have the ability to go between grid and detail, G and D. In order to flag as a select or unflag or reject, it's Z, U, and X. Stars are zero to five. Opening and closing the film strip is forward slash and before and after is backslash. Next, we have some controls over here for editing our images. The first one is edit and then E, then C for crop, H for healing, B for brush, L for linear gradient, and R for radial gradient. Well, now that I've shown you this graphic, let me show you how this works in the app. Here we are inside of Lightroom CC. Of course, we can just click on the icons and this will open up the ability to import or we can use the shortcut. Do you remember this one? Shift command I on the Mac or shift control I on Windows. What about viewing our photos? That's the P key. P key allows up to toggle the photos over here open and close. Currently I'm in a grid view. If I want to go to the detail view, I have the D key. Go back to the grid. That is the G key. Alright, let's keep moving around, here. Another way to zoom in and out or go from grid to detail just to kind of highlight here, it's not a shortcut, but it's a double click. Double click takes you to a larger view. Double click again goes back to that grid view. Let's double click and let's go to this detail view. You can see this image currently has one star. If I want to change this to two stars, I'll tap the two key on the keyboard. Zero stars, I press zero. What about flagging? We saw that what we can do is press Z for flag, U for remove flag, and then X equals flag as reject. Again, to remove that one, it would be the U key. Moving over here to the right, we have our film strip and our before after view. These are our forward and backward keys. Forward slash opens and closes the film strip. Backslash, so that's the one that shows us the before, press the backslash again, and then we see the after. It's a pretty good difference between those two images. This was how I captured it. This was in Italy, and this was after, after doing a little bit of a work in Lightroom. Next, over here, we have our different panels and controls. These shortcuts, if ever you forget them, you can just hover over and it will remind you so it, E, C, H, V, and then L and R, but still, let's just review those a little bit. E, you think of E for editing. This is where we're going to go in and say, "Hey, you know what? "This image has a little bit too much contrast. "I want to change the value of my blacks." E allows us to close that. C gives us the ability to enter into the crop work space. Press the C key again and it's gone. H for healing. That's where we can heal or clone, either one. Cleaning up little issues there. Again, that's our H key. Then we have B for brush. Open and close that with the brush, and then we have our two gradients and these allow us to make adjustments in big areas. L for linear gradient if we want to click and drag over a large area and maybe darken that sky up or something like that. Then R gives us access to our radial gradient. Alright, well I hope that you appreciated this quick view of some of these essential shortcuts that you can find inside of Lightroom CC and last, but not least. If you want to submit some other ideas for a tutorial topic you would like to see submitted, you can go to chrisorwig.com/ptw for Photo Tools Weekly and there I have a little form that you can fill out. You can send me a note just to say hello or if you have a question or if you want to suggest some other topics that you'd like to see me cover. You can do that there at chrisorwig.com/ptw. Alright, well thanks for joining me in this week's episode. I hope you have a fantastic day today. I look forward to seeing you next time. Bye for now.

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